Elyria starts crafting rules for adult use marijuana
Elyria City Council moved to apply existing medical marijuana zoning to recreational facilities and referred the plan to the Planning Commission. Law Director Amanda Deery noted current ordinances do not accommodate adult-use facilities, as Ohio moves to implement the new cannabis framework after Issue 2 passage.
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Elyria
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Tegic
Planning Commission
Ohio
Division of Cannabis Control
Council
Amanda Deery
Anchor donated to veterans agency marks a landmark move
Sheffield Township resident Gary McCombs donated a 9,300-pound anchor once from American Ship Building Co to the Lorain County Veterans Service Commission. The anchor, a decades old marker for pizza deliveries to his Elyria Avenue home, travels to its new home in Elyria in memory of neighbor Thomas Pataky, 74, who died in 2020.
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Bruce Bishop
Chronicle
Ken Lane
Lorain County Veterans Services
Abbe Road
Elyria
Lorain County
Veterans Service Commission
Sheffield
Gary McCombs
American Ship Building Co
Lorain
McCombs
Elyria Avenue
Lorain County Veterans Service Commission
Thomas Pataky
Wakeman Man Injured in Semi Crash
Calvin Burnworth, 73, of Wakeman, sustained critical injuries when his 1996 Mercury Sable veered into a semitractor trailer backing into a farmer’s lot on Route 113 near Birmingham and Route 60 in Florence Township Erie County. The crash, reported around 1:45 p.m., involved a 2016 Mack CXU driven by Mark Wetzel, 42, owner Kreuger Farms LLC of Berlin Heights. Burnsworth’s vehicle was wedged under the trailer after the side impact. He was flown by Cleveland Metro Life Flight to a trauma center.
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Wakeman
Florence Township
Erie County
Calvin Burnworth
Cleveland Metro Life Flight
State Highway Patrol
Birmingham
Burn
More charges likely in fatal Sunday crash
An Elyria man faces possible felony charges after a Sunday crash that killed 50 year old Sherry Taylor. Joshua Thompson 41 had a misdemeanor DUI charge dismissed to allow grand jury review. Thompson’s SUV ran a red light at North Abbe Road and State Route 57 near 10 p.m. Sunday.
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Joshua Thompson
University Avenue
Elyria City
Gary Bennett
Thompson
Ini
North Abbe Road
Sherry Taylor
Lorain County
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